Calabash Hotel

Style

Sugar, spice and all things nice

Setting

South-coast serenity

Sun, sea and sand seekers need look no further: allow us to introduce Calabash Hotel, an all-about-healing hideaway on the southern Caribbean coast of Grenada. Owners Leo and Lilian Garbutt, who hand-renovated this secluded space back in 1987, raised their three daughters (who now run the hotel) among the palm trees and scintillating sands, making familial service their first priority – and they’ve more than hit the mark with over 130 staff to serve your every whim. Add in 30 delightfully designed rooms, a sleepy spa and award-winning food, and you’ll quite quickly forget there’s a world outside of calming Calabash.

Facilities

Rooms

30 suites.

Checkout

Noon; check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.

More Details

Rates include breakfast, a welcome cocktail, non-alcoholic drinks and snacks from the minibar, afternoon tea, in-suite canapés, non-motorised watersports and access to Grenada Golf Club. Stays over three nights also include a 30-minute back massage each.

Also

The hotel’s common areas all have step-free access (including the restaurants), and two of the Pool Suites have been adapted with widened door frames and accessible bathrooms for wheelchair users.

Hotel Closed

The hotel is closed from 25 July until 1 October 2026.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Public beach onsite, concierge team, two tennis courts, bocce-ball court, 24-hour fitness center, free-to-use kayaks and snorkeling equipment, yoga pavilion, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Amazon Echo speakers, air-conditioning and ceiling fans, minibar, tea-making kit, Nespresso coffee machine, free bottled water, and Elemis bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

Rooms have modern interiors, with neutral palettes and flowy, draped furnishings that seamlessly blend with the hotel’s cosseting serenity. For your own private pool and a little extra space, we’d suggest the Penthouse Suite. The two- or five-bedroom villas are primed for groups and set a little further back from the hotel, with meditative views of Prickly Bay.

Poolside

Gazing over the hotel’s botanical gardens, the outdoor infinity pool (open from 6am to 6pm) is flanked with sun-soaked loungers and set a few steps from the spa.

Spa

Treatments at the spa focus on holistic healing methods that seek to realign the mind, body and soul. Masseurs use oils made from the island’s harvested cocoa beans for hydrating therapies, and all-natural honey and moringa masks for refreshing facials. Just beyond the spa, the fitness center is decked out with Cyber equipment and there are two tennis courts, a bocce-ball court and yoga pavilion.

Packing Tips

Leave the fins and snorkeling masks at home, the hotel has it all.

Children

From 1 October 2026, only children aged 12 and over are welcome all year round, except from 21 December to 4 January when all ages are welcome. To add children outside of the festive season, book adults online and contact the hotel to add little Smiths.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

If you’re seeking something secluded, ask staff to set up a private dinner under the pavilion, or on the beach.

Dress Code

Colorful kaftans and loose linens blend best at the Beach Club; formal threads (we’re talking collared shirts and floor-draping dresses) are required for those heading to Rhodes after dark.

Hotel Restaurant

Calabash is all about the food, and once you’ve sampled the fare at its trio of refined restaurants, you’ll quickly agree. Scenic settings await at the Beach Club, where light tapas-style bites and sandwiches are served by the sand throughout the day – Tuesday nights are dedicated to classic Caribbean dishes, and on Thursdays dinners are barbecued beachside. Poolside Izakaya brings together Latin American and Japanese cuisine, filling menus with crispy rice cakes, tenderloin tataki, Peruvian tempura and citrusy ceviches. Under idyllic vines and gently lit pergolas, Rhodes ends evenings strong with an Italian twist and perfectly paired wines.

Hotel Bar

During the day, the Beach Club is primed for post-dip mojitos and beers on the beach. Once the sun sets, Rhodes takes over cocktail shaking with local twists on classic concoctions.

Last Orders

Breakfast at the Beach Club is 8am–10am, lunch is 12pm–3pm, and dinner (Tuesdays and Thursdays, only) is 7pm–10pm. Izakaya opens 5pm–10pm (closed Tuesday and Thursday); and Rhodes (closed Tuesday and Thursday) serves tea 3.30pm–4.30pm and dinner 7pm–11pm.

Room Service

Available from a separate menu between 11.30am and 9pm.

Planes

Flights to the island land into Maurice Bishop International Airport, 10 minutes west of the hotel. There are a few direct flights from London Gatwick to Grenada, but most international flights will require a layover in the US. Free private transfers are arranged for guests.

Automobiles

If you want to visit other parts of the island, there are a few car-rental booths at the airport and the hotel has free parking onsite.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

The natural splendor of the quieter Antilles archipelago gives Grenada its edge, so start off by exploring its bucolic beauty with a guided hike up Mount St Catherine (the island’s highest peak) or make a beeline for the rainforest and spend the day trekking through the Grand Etang National Park with its monkeys, mongooses and armadillos for company, and diving among its storied shipwrecks. Stick with undersea adventures and admire aquatic artwork at the Underwater Sculpture Park, which impresses with over 75 carved statues that are set between five- and eight-meters underwater (snorkeling, scuba diving, or glass-bottomed boats are your best bet for spotting them). Shoppers should head for Market Square in St George, where Technicolor handicrafts and artisanal stalls line the streets.

Grenada’s nickname is Spice Island, so it’s only right to dedicate some time to learning more about the food-themed folklore: take a guided tour through Laura’s Herb & Spice Garden, explore the cocoa plantations at the L’Esterre Estate and the Belmont Estate, or sample locally made rums at the River Antonine Estate Distillery. For those who want to get stuck in rather than watch from afar, there are chocolate-making classes at the Tri-Island Chocolate Factory, and the nearby home of the Roberts’ family often host guests for traditional cooking classes. After all that wandering, settle yourself into the spa for meditative massages and soothe the soul with a spot of yoga in the palm-fringed pavilion.

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